Scott poised to endorse Trump amid running mate rumours

FORMER presidential candidate Tim Scott was last night set to endorse Donald Trump amid speculation he is being lined up as a running mate.

The news comes as Boris Johnson said that a second Trump term would be “a big win for the world”.

The South Carolina senator, who ran against Mr Trump in the early stages of the race, was expected to speak with the former president at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire.

Although he declined to comment on the rumours, a source told

he had come to back the former president’s campaign after telling reporters in November he would not endorse a candidate “any time soon”.

Some polls put Mr Trump neck and neck with Nikki Haley in New Hampshire, which will become the second state to vote on its preferred Republican nominee on Tuesday. Mr Trump won the first vote in Iowa by a landslide, receiving more than half of votes cast.

Mr Scott, who has widespread support among conservative evangelical voters, is under discussion as a possible vice-president in Mr Trump’s planned second administration.

He was formerly a close ally of Ms Haley, and was appointed to the Senate under her governorship of South Carolina in 2012.

The news came as Mr Johnson called for an end to opposition to Mr Trump from the “global wokerati”.

“Reasonable people can see that Trump is not, actually, a would-be dictator, and they have come to resent what look like legalistic ruses to axe him as a candidate,” he wrote in the

The former prime minister, who served concurrently with Mr Trump for 13 months at the start of his premiership, said he did not believe Mr Trump would end US support for Ukraine.

“I cannot believe that he will want to go down in history as the president who abandoned a country that he has signally helped to keep free,” he said.